Chapter Summaries

Jin Chan emerged from seclusion and summoned ten powerful allies to confront Qin Yan, who effortlessly shattered a peak Grandmaster’s attack and Golden Body with two commands. Jin Chan and the remaining experts prepared a combined assault, revealing his formidable Arhat Demon-Subduing Golden Body as the confrontation escalated.

• Jin Chan emerged from seclusion and called on his allies to help slay Qin Yan, while ten experts stepped through spatial ripples to surround him.
• Huang Jiuli offered to hold off two peak Grandmasters, but Qin Yan reassured her and dismissed the eleven local experts as a disappointment.
• A Common Life Alliance Supreme Elder attacked Qin Yan with his Golden Body and Common Life Spirit Light.
• Qin Yan commanded the spirit light to disperse and the Golden Body to explode, severely wounding the Supreme Elder.
• Jin Chan urged the others to attack together, and ten Golden Body Dharma Images appeared, including Jin Chan’s Arhat Demon-Subduing Golden Body.

Qin Yan effortlessly destroyed the attacks and Golden Bodies of the ten native experts besieging him, then annihilated them with a Yin-Yang Great Hand Seal. He also finished the Common Life Alliance's Supreme Elder in the ruins.

• Jin Chan and nine other experts unleashed their strongest attacks against Qin Yan while Huang Jiuli prepared to join the fight.
• Qin Yan spoke, causing all ten attacks to collapse and explode into fragments.
• Qin Yan spoke again, disintegrating the ten experts' Golden Bodies and leaving them terrified.
• Qin Yan crushed the experts' counterattacks with a Yin-Yang Great Hand Seal and reduced all ten to energy particles.
• Qin Yan sent a Yin-Yang finger strike into the ruins, killing the Common Life Alliance's Supreme Elder.

After defeating Jin Gang Temple and eleven local powerhouses, Qin Yan claimed the scattered Dao Essence and announced that Eastern Region factions had seven days to surrender or face him. As factions began forming an alliance against him, Su Qingwan suspected Qin Yan had awakened an Origin Divine Ability.

• Qin Yan absorbed the Dao Essence fragments and gave Huang Jiuli the Sword Dao Essence before descending into Jin Gang Temple’s ruins.
• Zhao Wuji, Jiang Yunyan, and the watching local powerhouses left in shock after witnessing Qin Yan defeat eleven opponents alone.
• Qin Yan told Huang Jiuli to announce that Eastern Region factions had seven days to surrender at Jin Gang Temple or he would visit them himself.
• The announcement enraged or frightened many factions, while major and smaller factions secretly began forming an alliance to eliminate Qin Yan.
• In the Northern Region, Lin Ruoxi asked Su Qingwan what she thought of Qin Yan’s victory, and Su Qingwan said he may have awakened an Origin Divine Ability.

News of Qin Yan's defeat of eleven native Grandmasters shocked prodigies across the Cangwu Small World, while Lin Ruoxi warned that the Eastern Region's powerful sects could threaten his plans. At Jin Gang Temple, Huang Jiuli accepted Qin Yan's confidence in his strength and discovered he was also a Formation Master.

• Lin Ruoxi told Su Qingwan that Red Phoenix Valley and Penglai Island made the Eastern Region too powerful for Qin Yan to subdue easily, then proposed joining Luo Qingli to capture the Western Region.
• Su Qingwan recalled Wen Ya's warning that Qin Yan was terrifying, and agreed to Lin Ruoxi's plan.
• Long Aotian, Beichen Xing, Feng Wuji, and two other prodigies learned of Qin Yan's strength and hurried to conquer the Southern Region before he could claim the small world's origin.
• Yin Li, Lu Qingshan, and Yun Qingge reacted with shock to Qin Yan's battle record, while Yin Li worried that Huang Jiuli had not stopped him from challenging the Eastern Region.
• Huang Jiuli continued cultivating with Qin Yan at Jin Gang Temple after learning he believed no Eastern Region faction had Grandmaster-level Combat Power, and she realized he could form Spirit Seals as a Formation Master.

Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli emerged from Jin Gang Temple to face an Eastern Region coalition of more than a hundred Grandmasters. Qin Yan killed one attacker with a word, and Bai Jingyuan ordered the coalition to unleash its full assault.

• Huang Jiuli reported that Eastern Region forces had surrounded Jin Gang Temple, and Qin Yan went out to inspect them once the seven-day deadline ended.
• Qin Yan used his Mental Strength to reveal the hidden experts and found that Red Phoenix Valley and Penglai Island were absent.
• A peak Grandmaster mocked Qin Yan, who said, “I say, you die,” and caused the man to explode into blood mist.
• Bai Jingyuan urged the coalition to summon their Golden Bodies and ordered everyone to attack Qin Yan.
• More than a hundred Grandmasters launched a barrage of attacks at Qin Yan, who regarded it with only slight gravity.

Qin Yan trapped the local powerhouses in the Thousand Thunder Spirit Array and slaughtered nearly all of them. Bai Jingyuan and forty-eight peak Grandmasters activated the Mirror Lake Formation, which withstood the array’s first lightning barrage.

• Qin Yan dispersed the combined attacks of more than one hundred powerhouses with the Rule words “Attack, disperse,” while Bai Jingyuan urged the others to keep attacking after sensing his aura weaken.
• Qin Yan activated the Thousand Thunder Spirit Array, surrounding the powerhouses with a sea of silver lightning and raining bolts down upon them.
• Bai Jingyuan recognized the array as a seventh-rank upper-grade Formation and ordered the forty-eight other peak Grandmasters to join him in activating the Mirror Lake Formation.
• The Mirror Lake Formation dissolved the first wave of lightning, but more than one hundred other Grandmaster powerhouses had already died in the barrage.

Qin Yan faced Bai Jingyuan and the surviving peak Grandmasters after killing more than a hundred of their allies. Their Mirror Lake Formation withstood his lightning attack and formed a colossal vortex, leaving Qin Yan readying the Yin-Yang Five Elements Block.

• The surviving powerhouses cursed Qin Yan for slaughtering their companions, while he remained unmoved and Bai Jingyuan prepared to attack.
• Bai Jingyuan unleashed the Mirror Lake Light-Splitting Slash, and Qin Yan's gathered lightning struck it; both attacks destroyed each other.
• Bai Jingyuan and the forty-eight other peak Grandmasters poured their remaining power into Mirror Lake and formed a thousand-zhang silver vortex.
• Huang Jiuli raised a Phoenix True Fire barrier against the falling silver raindrops and worried over Qin Yan, but his calm expression reassured her.
• Qin Yan summoned the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon and shouted, "Yin-Yang Five Elements Block, manifest!"

Qin Yan destroyed the Mirror Lake Formation and routed the Eastern Region Allied Army. He pursued the fleeing Grandmasters with his Five Elements Yin-Yang Spear Array and left none alive.

• Qin Yan shattered the silver vortex with the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon, breaking the local experts’ resolve.
• Bai Jingyuan and the other Peak Grandmasters fled, causing the Mirror Lake Formation to collapse.
• Qin Yan unleashed eighty-one five-element yin-yang spears and killed the fleeing Grandmasters one after another.
• The spears killed Bai Jingyuan, ending the hunt for Qin Yan and wiping out the Eastern Region Allied Army.

After Qin Yan annihilated the Eastern Region alliance, he shared Sword Dao Essence with Huang Jiuli and set out with her for Red Phoenix Valley. They arrived above the fire-rich valley, where Huang Jiuli sensed a connection to the Phoenix Clan.

• Qin Yan gave Huang Jiuli extra Sword Dao Essence after slaughtering the local Grandmaster powerhouses without using his Golden Body.
• Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli headed for Red Phoenix Valley, while Qin Yan refined the battle’s Dao Essence fragments and learned that Mystic Sanctuary recruits had stripped their sects of resources before leaving.
• Huang Jiuli explained Phoenix Divine Mountain’s methods for screening surrendered outsiders, including its Nirvana Pool.
• On the fifteenth day of the tenth month, Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli arrived above Red Phoenix Valley, and Huang Jiuli remarked that its phoenix-shaped mountains seemed connected to the Phoenix Clan.

Qin Yan discovered that Red Phoenix Valley and Penglai Island had joined forces to ambush him, then confronted both sects alone. As their forces gathered for a fight to the death, Qin Yan welcomed the chance to test his strength.

• Qin Yan sensed immense fire and water auras in Red Phoenix Valley and realized Penglai Island had joined the valley against him.
• Huang Jiuli withdrew to safety, and Qin Yan struck Red Phoenix Valley with his yin-yang Spear Intent, but its phoenix barrier blocked the attack.
• Red Phoenix Valley and Penglai Island sent out their forces, and Qin Yan challenged them over their alliance.
• Feng Yan and Shui Qinglan stepped forward and summoned their seventy-nine-zhang Golden Bodies as both sects prepared to fight.
• Qin Yan faced the combined army of Grandmasters with eager battle intent, ready to test his Qi Refining and Body Refining attainments.

Qin Yan used his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body and two Supreme Grade Spear Domains to overwhelm the Red Phoenix Valley and Penglai Island forces. Feng Yan and Shui Qinglan rallied their factions into powerful formations, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Qin Yan summoned his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body, fused with it, and expanded the Lunar Yin Solar Yang Spear Domain across the battlefield.
• Qin Yan's two Supreme Grade Spear Domains suppressed the local powerhouses' domains and weakened their Golden Bodies.
• Qin Yan slew Grandmaster powerhouses and shattered Golden Bodies while the five-element spheres around him dispersed incoming attacks.
• Feng Yan ordered Red Phoenix Valley to form the Red Phoenix Grand Formation, while Shui Qinglan ordered Penglai Island to form the Water Dragon Sea-Quelling Formation.
• Red Phoenix Valley's fighters formed a thousand-zhang fire phoenix that rained flaming meteors, while Penglai Island's fighters conjured a vast azure sea.

Qin Yan fought Feng Yan and Shui Qinglan’s combined water dragon and phoenix projections, withstanding their attacks despite their Great Grandmaster-level power. He countered their Water Dragon Breath and Phoenix Meteor Shower, then sent a black-and-white yin-yang beam through the remaining meteors toward the phoenix.

• Feng Yan and Shui Qinglan sent their water dragon and phoenix projections to attack Qin Yan from opposite sides.
• Qin Yan knocked the phoenix aside with the Mo Yuan Spear and used a three-colored barrier to blunt the water dragon’s charge.
• The water dragon and phoenix projections battled Qin Yan together but failed to gain the advantage.
• Feng Yan unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower as Shui Qinglan launched Water Dragon Breath at Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan weakened the Water Dragon Breath with the Yin-Yang Five Elements Block and dispersed about half the flame meteors with the Demon Word Heavenly Constitution.
• Qin Yan fired a black-and-white yin-yang beam from the Golden Body’s eyes, destroying the remaining meteors and striking toward the phoenix.

Qin Yan destroyed Red Phoenix Valley’s Phoenix Projection and Penglai Island’s water dragon before defeating the forces of both factions. After the battle, he collected Dao Essence and cultivation resources, then dispelled his Golden Body.

• Qin Yan’s Yin-Yang Annihilation beam destroyed Red Phoenix Valley’s Phoenix Projection, causing the formation experts to suffer backlash.
• Qin Yan held off Penglai Island’s water dragon until its formation weakened, then trapped it with the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spear Array and destroyed it.
• Qin Yan attacked both factions’ forces while his Lunar Yin Solar Spear Domain prevented them from escaping.
• Qin Yan killed Feng Yan with his final spear, ending the battle above Red Phoenix Valley.
• Qin Yan gathered the scattered Dao Essence, absorbed the useful portions, stored the spoils in the Blood Demon Nest, and dispelled his Golden Body.

After defeating Red Phoenix Valley, Qin Yan entered the sect and forced its remaining disciples to submit. He had a disciple lead him and Huang Jiuli to the treasury, where two Late-Stage Grandmasters stood guard.

• Huang Jiuli returned from the battlefield, and Qin Yan gave her the Sword Dao Essence he had collected.
• Qin Yan broke Red Phoenix Valley’s weakened protection array and entered the valley with Huang Jiuli.
• Qin Yan used his power of Rule to force the valley’s disciples to kneel and choose between submission and death.
• The disciples declared their submission, and Qin Yan explained that he planned to seize Cangwu Small World’s World Origin and eliminate powerful threats.
• Qin Yan compelled a disciple to guide him and Huang Jiuli to the treasury, where two Late-Stage Grandmasters guarded the entrance.

Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli plundered Red Phoenix Valley's treasury after Qin Yan killed its guards, then discovered signs of a hidden Phoenix inheritance beneath it. Qin Yan struck the floor with Mo Yuan, but the concealed area remained sealed.

• Qin Yan killed the two elders guarding the treasury and forced their disciple to open its doors.
• Qin Yan collected the treasury's cultivation resources and Spirit Weapons into the Blood Demon Nest.
• Huang Jiuli sensed a powerful Phoenix aura beneath the treasury, and the disciple revealed an ancient rumor about Red Phoenix Valley's Phoenix inheritance.
• Qin Yan drove Mo Yuan into the floor, but the floor remained unmarked.

Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli were dragged into an abyss filled with Phoenix True Fire, where they discovered the corpse of an immense fallen phoenix. Huang Jiuli grieved for the dead senior and transformed into a phoenix to pay her respects.

• Qin Yan used his Golden Body's eye beam and Mo Yuan giant spear to break through the crimson defenses covering the vault floor.
• An immense suction force pulled Qin Yan, Huang Jiuli, and a Red Phoenix Valley disciple into a fissure, where Phoenix True Fire incinerated the disciple.
• Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli survived the flames and landed in a sea of fire surrounding a phoenix thousands of zhang long.
• Huang Jiuli explained that the sea of fire came from the fallen phoenix's dissipating origin and mourned its death.
• Huang Jiuli approached the corpse, transformed into a phoenix with a wingspan of one hundred zhang, and flew above it to pay her respects.

Huang Jiuli honored an ancient phoenix and received its blessing, which revealed a Phoenix Crystal Cultivation Room to Qin Yan. Qin Yan entered the room to cultivate his Golden Bodies using its abundant Heaven-Earth Force.

• Huang Jiuli circled the fallen phoenix for a day and night, laying Phoenix True Fire across its corpse until it vanished and left behind a crimson phoenix plume.
• The plume blessed Huang Jiuli, strengthening her foundation, and she told Qin Yan she needed to enter seclusion.
• Huang Jiuli summoned a Phoenix Crystal Cultivation Room that converted Phoenix True Fire into pure Heaven-Earth Force and explained its purpose to Qin Yan.
• Huang Jiuli began her seclusion beneath the phoenix plume, while Qin Yan entered the Cultivation Room.
• Qin Yan found that the chamber had three levels and sat down on the First Layer, summoning both of his Golden Bodies to cultivate.

Qin Yan entered the Second Layer of the secret chamber, where his Golden Bodies grew much faster as he cultivated and trained with his spear. Meanwhile, the Eastern Region celebrated false reports of his death, while Penglai Island prepared for war after its leaders’ soul lamps went out.

• Qin Yan endured the Second Layer’s crushing Heaven-Earth pressure and began cultivating there, growing each Golden Body by one zhang in a day.
• Qin Yan trained with the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon while his Golden Bodies absorbed the Second Layer’s Heaven-Earth Force.
• Red Phoenix Valley’s survivors concluded that Qin Yan had died beneath the intensified sea of fire and sealed off the treasury.
• The Eastern Region’s forces celebrated reports that Red Phoenix Valley had killed Qin Yan.
• Penglai Island’s surviving elder ordered the island to enter full combat readiness after its leaders’ soul lamps went out.

While the world believed Qin Yan had died in Red Phoenix Valley, he continued cultivating in the underground sea of fire. His two Golden Bodies reached sixty zhang, breaking his cultivation bottleneck, and he prepared to enter the Cultivation Room’s Third Layer.

• Penglai Island kept its defenses raised for more than ten days, but Red Phoenix Valley did not attack.
• Lin Ruoxi, Su Qingwan, and Luo Qingli paused their Northern Region campaign to cultivate, while Yin Li vowed to avenge Huang Jiuli.
• Qin Yan trained with the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon as his two Golden Bodies cultivated in the underground sea of fire.
• On November fifteenth, Qin Yan's two Golden Bodies reached sixty zhang and broke through his martial cultivation bottleneck to the Late-Stage Seventh Rank.
• Qin Yan reviewed his improved attributes and decided to test the Cultivation Room’s Third Layer, condensing blood before him.

Qin Yan tested the Third Layer’s overwhelming pressure, lost and regenerated his right hand, then stayed in the Second Layer to cultivate while Huang Jiuli remained in seclusion. He refined ten batches of high-grade Blood Spirit Pills as he waited.

• Qin Yan sent a Late-Stage Grandmaster Blood Puppet into the Third Layer, where its body was crushed into blood mist.
• Qin Yan reached into the Third Layer himself, but the Heaven-Earth Force crushed his right hand and forced him to retreat.
• Qin Yan restored his hand with the Undying Blood Demon Body and Water-Wood Divine Light Art, then gave up on entering the Third Layer.
• Qin Yan decided to stay near Huang Jiuli while she cultivated in her Phoenix Feather cocoon and planned to protect her with a Thousand Thunder Spirit Array before eventually leaving to pursue his mission and the Cangwu Small World’s Origin.
• Qin Yan summoned his Golden Bodies to cultivate and used the Blood Coagulation Life Transformation Cauldron to refine Blood Spirit Pills.
• Qin Yan produced ten high-grade Blood Spirit Pills per cauldron across ten batches over ten days.